Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 500 B.C. through 451 B.C.
- -500 to -451
- Pericles of Athens b. -500 (d. -429)
- Sardinia captured by Greeks, Phoenicians, and Carthaginians
-500
- Hight point of Etruscan political power and civilization in
Italy c. -500
- Decline of Chin. feudal state under Chou dynasty begins
- The Ionians revolt from Persia under Histiaeus and Aristagoras,
tyrants of Miletus, -500
- Ionian War (-499 to -494); ends with capture of Miletus
- Sardis burned by Athenians -499
- Tarquin defeated and killed at Battle of Lake Regillus -498
- Latin League, under leadership of Rome in Latium, directed
against Etruscans; secession of the plebeians; creation of the
tribunate -494
- Miltiades flees to Athens -493
- Romans conquer the town of Corioli; their general, Gaius Marcius,
receives the surname Coriolanus -493
- Darius I demands tribute of earth and water from Greece -492
- Coriolanus banished from Rome -491
- Persian Wars (-490 to -449): Persian army defeated by Greeks
under Miltiades at Marathon -490; Spartans under King Leonidas
defeated by Persians at Thermopylae -480; Athens is burned by
Xerxes I, the Acropolis destroyed -480; Athenians destroy Persian
fleet at Battle of Salamis -480; Greeks under the Spartan general,
Pausanias, defeat Persians at Plataea -479; Cimon, son of Miltiades,
campaigns against the Persians (-477 to -449); he destroys the
Persian army and navy at the Battle of Eurymedon -466; Persians
finally defeated at Salamis in Cyprus, recognize in the Peace of
Callias the independence of the Greek cities -449
- Miltiades, in disgrace, d. -488
- Gelo becomes tyrant of Syracuse -485
- Darius I of Persia d. -485; Persian decline begins
- Xerxes I, king of Persia (-485 to -465)
- Aristides banished -483
- Themistocles builds navy, founds Athenian sea power -483
- The Carthaginians, under Hamilcar Barca, defeated by Gelo of
Syracuse at Himera in Sicily -480
- Persians capture and destroy Babylon -479
- Walls of Athens rebuilt, Piraeus harbor fortified -478
- Aristides, opponent of Themistocles, founds Delian League
c. -478
- Beginning of Athenian ascendancy c. -477
- Legendary death of the 306 Roman Fabii in battle with
Etruscan forces -477
- Themistocles banished -471
- The plebeians in Rome choose their own tribune -471
- Nicias, Athenian statesman and general, b. -469 (d. -413)
- Xerxes I assassinated -465; succeeded by his son
Artaxerxes I (to -424)
- Democracy in Syracuse -465
- Cimon banished (-462 to -454)
- Pericles' rise in Athens begins -462
- Themistocles d. -459 (b. -525)
- Cincinnatus becomes Roman dictator and rescues army
sorrounded by the Aequi -485
- War between Athens and Corinth -458
- Achaea joins Athenian alliance -454
- Greeks in Egypt defeated by Megabyzus -454
- Three Roman senators sent to Athens to study the laws of
Solon -451
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